Portfolio Submission for Art Senses Award 2026

*CV can be found at the bottom of this page

  1. 372.5 ~ Tidal Installation

Video: 372.5~Dublin Bay, visualises the tidal data from the River Liffey, installed at 1 Windmill Lane, Dublin

372.5~ is a kinetic tidal installation that turns the six-hour and 12.5 minute tidal cycle (372.5 minutes) into a slow, breathing sculpture. Using open-source tidal data from sites such as Dublin Bay and the River Thames, the work drives a system of pulleys, counterweights and a custom cam that lifts and releases suspended fabric. The vertical rise and fall follows real tidal heights, while the horizontal motion traces a sinusoidal curve, echoing historic tidal instruments. Viewers encounter what feels like an enlarged diaphragm: the cloth inhales and exhales in rhythm with the sea, casting shifting shadows in the space. Many people find themselves unconsciously matching its pace with their own breathing. By translating invisible gravitational forces and numerical data into movement and texture, 372.5~ invites a contemplative awareness of how celestial bodies, oceans and urban shorelines remain quietly entangled.

Involved Partners: Irish Arts Council, Eco Show Boat, Marine Institute Ireland, Somerset House
Also exhibited at Space House, London and Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Maine USA

2. N.Y.SEA

N.Y.Sea is a kinetic sculpture that visualises the vulnerability of New York City’s subway system to river flooding. Using historic water-level records from the Hudson and East Rivers combined with storm-surge projections, the work choreographs a field of suspended forms that rise, tilt and cluster in response to different flood scenarios. As the data predicts higher water or more frequent storms, the structure shifts towards states of tension and overflow, suggesting tunnels and platforms filling with water. The sculpture asks viewers to stand inside a moving diagram of risk: rather than reading charts, they feel shifting weight, balance and proximity in their own bodies. By framing infrastructure as part of a larger tidal system, N.Y.Sea questions how long anthropocentric planning can hold against river dynamics and a changing climate.
Involved Partners: NYC Open Data Week, Brooklyn Arts Council

3. Message in a Bottle

2021, 13 stepper motors, 50 plastic bottles, wood and fishing line, hydrophone and projections

Message in a Bottle is a data-driven installation that translates real wave activity from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch into a fragile choreography of plastic bottles. Wave-height readings from NOAA buoy 46246 are mapped to thirteen motors that lift and release clusters of bottles, causing them to sway, knock and shimmer like a restless sea. Subtle projections and reflections amplify the sense of scale, while the cheap, familiar material insists on the human origin of this debris. Instead of presenting graphs about ocean pollution, the piece stages an uneasy dance between beauty and dread: viewers are drawn to the rhythm and light, yet constantly reminded that they are watching a sea made of waste. The work aims to pull on the body as well as the conscience, inviting quiet reckoning with accumulation, permanence and responsibility. This piece was accompanied by a dystopian soundscape I recorded using a hydrophone. I captured the sounds of plastic bottles colliding against one another underwater to replicate the noises life-below-water have to constantly listen to. 

4. Sounds of The Sea using Machine Learning

2022, computer vision, maxMSP

Sounds of the Sea is an artificially generated seascape that uses machine learning, computer vision and noise synthesis to mimic the experience of standing at the shoreline. Video of the artist’s moving hands is analysed so that the x and y positions of the body become control data for bands of white and pink noise. As the hands trace arcs and splashes in the air, the sound shifts between low rumbles, breaking waves and high hiss, suggesting surf, spray and undertow. Installed in a darkened space with minimal visuals, the piece invites listeners to close their eyes and “see” through sound alone. Many describe a bodily sense of being returned to the edge of the sea, even in a gallery. It explores how computational systems can reconstruct a place of calm while also exposing the mediation involved in such reconstructions.
Involved Partners
Policy Lab, DEFRA UK, Somerset House

5. SEE~TURTLES

36 servo motors, PS3 webcam, Raspberry Pi, organza fabric, wave data, repurposed plastic

SEE TURTLES is an interactive installation that asks what the ocean might look like from a turtle’s perspective in a plastic-choked sea. Using cameras, computer vision and simple motorised elements, the work tracks passing movement and triggers glowing, floating forms that resemble both jellyfish and drifting plastic bags. As visitors approach or wave their hands, these forms gather, scatter or pulse, hinting at the confusion turtles face when mistaking plastic for food. The playful responsiveness of the piece is deliberately undercut by its subject: a vision system that cannot reliably distinguish nourishment from danger. By inviting people to “play” with light that behaves like pollution, SEE TURTLES turns an abstract problem into something immediate, bodily and memorable, highlighting how small gestures on land ripple into underwater lives.

***This was installed during the pandemic when no visitors were allowed inside the gallery, I therefore had to adapt and use sensors / computer vision that could be interacted with from outside the gallery windows

Involved partners: College Lane Gallery, Dublin

Artist CV

Education 
2022 MFA Computational Arts, Goldsmiths University London, First Class Honours
2019 Diploma Front End Web Development, IBAT College
2015 B.A Management Science and Information System Studies, Trinity College Dublin 

Awards and Residencies
2025 EU S+T+ARTS Aqua Motion Residency Viana do Castelo, Portugal, funded by EU Commission
2025 V&A Residency: AI and Digital Worlds Finalist The V&A, London, sponsored by Adobe
2024 Studio Quantum Residency Berlin, Germany, funded by Goethe Institute, Akademie der Künste, Künstlerhaus Bethanien
2024 Maker With a Mission @ Makerversity Residency Somerset House, London
2024 EU S+T+ARTS 4 Water Finalist EU S+T+ARTS Consortium
2024 Fine Art Work Centre, finalist Residency FAWC, Provincetown, USA
2023 Tides Institute and Museum of Art Residency Eastport, Maine, USA
2023 Develop Your Creative Practice Grant Arts Council England
2023 EMAP Residency, Finalist Residency EU Media ArtPlatform
2022 London Design Festival Award The V&A, London
2021 College Lane Gallery Residency Dublin, Ireland
2021 Public Sculpture Emergency Exit Arts Award London, UK

Selected Exhibitions & Show Cases
2025 Step Inside Weekend Somerset House London, UK
2025 Spring Tides Magan Gallery London, UK
2025 372.5~ River Thames x Earth Day Space House London, UK
2025 IN SCOPE Hypha Studios HQ London, UK

2023 Eco Show Boat 1 Windmill Lane Dublin, funded by Irish Arts Council
2023 Between Creativity and Individuality Huanggang Normal University Hubei, China
2023 Changing Course (DEFRA Futures) Somerset House London, UK
2023 Hidden in Plain Sight, Open Data Week Data Through Design New York, sponsored by Brooklyn Arts Council
2023 OVERFLOW hARTslane Gallery London, UK
2023 Medway Light Nights Festival Chatham Highstreet Kent, UK, funded by Arts Council England

2022 Spectacle for Later Rio Cinema London, UK
2022 Can Water Be Thirsty (also here) Storm Studio Brooklyn, New York
2022 Hang Party Brixton House Theatre London, UK
2022 London Digital Design Festival The Victoria & Albert Museum London, UK

Solo Shows
2021 The Scenic Route The College Lane Gallery Dublin, Ireland

Selected Speaking and Teaching
2025 Currents and Code, Artist Talk Hypha Studios London, UK
2024 Painting with Plotters led by Licia He V&A Museum London, UK
2024 London Design Festival Data VisWorkshop Somerset House London, UK
2024 A Discussion on Interactive Theatre Somerset House London, UK
2024 Mentor with Unloc, Steering the Future Morley College London, UK
2024 Jurer, Tides Institute and Museum of Art Eastport Maine, USA
2023 What is Data Visualisation Eastport High School Eastport, Maine, USA
2023 Physical Computing and Art Eastport High School Eastport, Maine, USA
2023 The School of Looking Eco Show Boat Dublin, Ireland
2023 Hidden in Plain Sight Data X Design New York, New York
2022 What is Computational Art? Sutton Park School Dublin, Ireland
2020 Combining Art & Computer Science Chapin Girls School New York, New York 

Press and Features
2025 FAD, Top 5 Exhibitions to visit in London this February
2024 Rows and Columns , Revealing Nature’s unseen Rhythms
2023 NY1 News, Open Data Week
2023 Stefan Sagmeister Blog
2023 Medway Light Nights Festival
2022 Vertex, Cambridge University Magazine